Improvement in pantaloons



I. ZOELLNER.

. PANTALOONS.

No. 191,505. Patented May 29,1877.

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TED STATES ISAAC ZOELLNEB, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PANTALOONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. R!) [,505, dated May 2 1577; pp i filed July 8, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC ZOELLNER, of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pants, (called overalls,) which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of pants and drawers, its object being to dispense with the nu merous buttons heretofore employed to fasten the same, and the suspenders commonly employed for their support, and also to adapt the articles to fit the body around the hips and waist. v

The invention consists in providing the upper part of the pants with overlapping flaps, extending from the crotch to the right and left hips, said flaps having various band-like extensions, which can be passed to the rear of the body, as shown, the extension of inner flap extending through an opening in the upper part of the garment on one side, and the extension of the outer flap through a loop attached to the pants on the opposite side, as more fully hereinafter specified.

The drawing represents a perspective view of my improved garment.

The letter A represents the pants or drawers, and a a two overlapping flaps, extending, when the pants areproperly secured around the wearer, from the crotch and to the right and left hips, respectively. The flaps are each provided with a narrow extension, B, the extension of the inner flap passing through an opening, C, at one side of the pants, and that of the outer flap through a loop, D, at the opposite side of the garment, both being carried to the rear, and secured around the waist at their ends by means of a buckle, G.

It will be perceived that as thus constructed the upper portion of the garment can be secured around the person of the wearer in a neat and comfortable manner, no matter what may be his size, by the single fastening at the back, thus dispensing with the numerous buttons heretofore necessary for fastening, and dispensing also with the waist-straps ordina rily used to adjust the pants at the rear.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

The combination, in a pair of pants or drawers, of the overlapping flaps, extending from the crotch in front to the respective hips, and the extensions of said flaps passing to the rear, and adapted to be secured around the waist at the rear, substantially as herein set forth.

ISAAC ZOELLNER.

Witnesses JEREMIAH SOANLAN, W. HENscHELL. 

